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A major work from Merc? Rodoredas early, realistic period,Camellia Streetis set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a more unsettled life of fire-setting, poverty, one abusive man after another, prostitution, and, eventually, a tenuous note of rebirth. Building on the themes ofThe Time of the Doves, Rodoreda uses Cecilias difficult life to explore the strength of one woman in the face of male brutality. A classic work of feminist fiction thats as charged today as when it was first published in Catalan back in 1966.
Mercè Rodoredais widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled to France during the Spanish Civil War, and only able to return to Catalonia in the mid-1960s, she wrote a number of highly praised works, includingThe Time of the DovesandDeath in Spring.
David Rosenthalwrote mostly about jazz music and was one of the most influential translators of Catalan in the twentieth century. Along with a number of the works of Merc? Rodoreda, he translatedTirant Lo Blanch, a book Cervantes believed was one of the best ever.
Sandra Cisnerosis a Mexican-American writer of more than ten books, includingThe House on Mango Street.
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